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Latino leaders from California provide evidence that Latinos are being left behind from access to COVID-19 vaccinations and ask for the implementation of distribution policies that reach Latino communities.

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Professor Laura Gomez in Vox: “What the hysteria over critical race theory is really all about”

Critical race theory also highlighted how, even when the law changed to increase racial equity, institutions disrupted the intentions of those laws and tried to get around them, Laura Gomez, a University of California Los Angeles law professor who co-founded the school’s critical race studies program in 2000, told Vox.

UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center in UCLA Newsroom: “UCLA receives $1.45 million bequest for research related to artist Raphael Montañez Ortiz”

The UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center has received $1.45 million in a bequest gift to support research and scholarship related to the art and life of Raphael Montañez Ortiz, a Puerto Rican American pioneer of the 1960s destructivist art movement, founder of the first Latino museum in the United States and recipient of the UCLA … Continued

LPPI in Bluffton Today: “Federal unemployment programs end Saturday: Here’s what you need to know in South Carolina.”

Latinas hardest hit by job loss as economy recovers. Latinas have left the workforce in droves as a result of the pandemic. A report by the UCLA Latino Politics and Policy Initiative found that Latinas have the highest rates of unemployment and workforce departure of any demographic in the U.S. (June 16) AP

Statement From UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Initiative on the For The People Act

Statement from Sonja Diaz, founding director of the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Initiative on the failure of the U.S. Senate to move the For The People Act forward.

Professor David Hayes-Bautista in McKnight’s News, Perspective, and Analysis: “Affordable housing options needed to address growing, aging Latino population”

“When Social Security was instituted, then Medicare built on top of it, the assumption was that at age 65, Latinos would get both,” David Hayes-Bautista, Ph.D., a professor of public health and medicine and director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture at the UCLA School of Medicine, told the media … Continued

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